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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
The article argues that clean business profits benefit all and that harming others is unacceptable. It condemns gambling and illegal devices, notes how fair dealings should help both sides, and warns that ostentatious charity without integrity can corrupt society.
A vintage ad touts high grade pure coffee in 1 and 3 pound cans. It promotes Karo at home for a small price, coal oil at five gallons for five cents, fancy tomatoes in 3 pound cans, and vinegar at twenty cents per gallon, urging buyers to save.
Charles E. Wright, city editor of the Vicksburg Herald, died at Brown's Wells after a brief illness. A longtime Mississippi journalist born in Vicksburg, he was respected as a writer and civic-minded citizen who advanced the state's interests. The Clarion Ledger lauds him as a generous and devoted professional and friend.
A brief classified note seeks a trade: a horse in exchange for a milk cow. The ad states the proposer is willing to swap and requests interested parties to contact for arrangements.
Fifty-year-olds and old friends gather at Fair View for an all-day July 4th celebration with speakers including Prof. C. C. Hughes and Rev. Walter J. Bruce. Attendees await gatherings, songs, prayers, and honors for the oldest guest and the mother of the most children.
Twenty five women of the town invite the merwlian of fifty years to partake in Fourth of July hospitality on Tuesday the fourth. They list names including Maggie Thompson Mesdames Calloway Stephens Mitchell Price Patton Freeman Reynolds Baird Birry Butler Cole Logan Worley Worley Purvis Ramey Scott Hamilton Stinebeck White McMahon Knight Butler Harris and others.
Nine days after Columbus the Ward line steamer Esperanza arrived at Vera Cruz with 1 350 000 rounds of soft nosed bullets for the Carranza government. On April 1 the Monterey brought 1 350 000 rounds to Vera Cruz. On May 13 after an ambush attempt on the American expeditionary troops the Esperanza landed 300 000 rounds at Vera Cruz.
Mrs Alexander B White of Paris Tenn directs the Shiloh monument committee as ground is broken at Shiloh National Park for a 350000 Confederate monument. The site in Prentiss Circle near the Corinth Pittsburg Savannah road will host October unveiling.
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